some beautiful knife river flint pieces

[larson1951]

a friend from Glen Ullin ND found this stuff 15yrs ago between Glen Ullin and New Salem

The KRF mines are located about 40 miles north of there

[GL]

Those are beautiful.

[uniface]

That stretch must be about Paradise !

[bravowhiskey]

Larson 1951,

Your friend has some beautiful looking pieces. In that top frame, 2nd one down looks like one I have , but yours is a much nicer looking piece of flint. I always thought it was broken or unfinished. Now it appears to me it is an intentional single corner notch. (excuse me if my terms are incorrect.)
see pic..



BW

[larson1951]

whiskey, I agree with you
they were made that way
pretty cool, huh?
thanks a lot man

[uniface]

Much earlier stuff, IMO, than what you're finding on your farm. The one-shoulder knife probably isn't a Scottsbluff Knife (looks like one at first), although the transverse flaking on the blade is right for one (unless they also made them by burin-flaking like yours). Mostly Plano/Early Archaic, I'd guess, and very high quality EA at that.

[larson1951]

uni, what is the diff between transverse and burin flaking?
do you have any pics to show me as examples?
also what does high Quality 'EA' mean?

[Rege-PA]

The points in question could be Cody knives, they are made in that shape.

[gilmerman]

Do you know, know long it took him to put these together? Its a very nice displayed example of our hobby.

[uniface]

Hi Larson1951

High quality Early Archaic stuff

Burin flaking is what you see on the base of the Cody Knife : a removal at a right angle (or close to it) to the plane of the blade edges. Ordinarily, burin flaking produced burins -- little tiny chisel edges for scoring & engraving. The bases of Decatur points are burin flaked. It was one of the Early Archaic technological carryovers from the Paleo era that pretty much disappeared afterward.

Super Stuff !!

[coteau]

I'll take the side notched Besant you're holding Thank you very much.